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ceejayozlast Sunday at 4:01 PM1 replyview on HN

> But modern factory conditions are nowhere near what that regime did.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53481253

> Reports by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) and the US Congress, among others, have found that thousands of Uighurs have been transferred to work in factories across China, under conditions the ASPI report said "strongly suggest forced labour". It linked those factories to more than 80 high-profile brands, including Nike, Apple and Gap.

> China, which is believed to have detained more than one million Uighurs in internment camps in Xinjiang, has described its programmes - which reportedly include forced sterilisation - as job training and education.


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satvikpendemlast Sunday at 4:02 PM

China is a different story altogether. They're not democratic so of course you'd expect to see things like that.

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